Died of apparent heart attack during visit to Arkansas.
The following is from a July, 1990, article in the Gilmer Mirror
newspaper written by Betty Varner."The name Jimmy Barton is well known to gospel singers and to gospel
music fans as well from all over the country, for he was the original
owner and builder of the world-renowned Barton's Tabernacle which was
located six miles west of Gilmer on the Latch Road.""In 1982, Mr. Barton sold Barton's Tabernacle to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle
Dozier, who operated it for awhile before eventually closing up the
original building due to lack of crowds and support.""In 1984, Mr. Barton, still hungry to try to bring back Southern
Gospel Music to this area, began from ground up; but in view of the
original building. Whispering Pines was soon open in May, 1984, and
its doors were soon overflowing with gospel music fans each Saturday
night.""Due to Mr. Barton's failing health, however, he was not ableto
remain in Whispering Pines for long. Several couples stepped in and
managed Whispering Pines, still under his ownership, to allow the
doors to remain open."
Thomas Marion DUNNAGAN (DOAS) Doctor
Death certificate - 25246
MCCLANAHAN, WILLIAM J. (1907-1981). William J. McClanahan, cartoonist, the son of Samuel Mortimer and Molly McClanahan, was born on December 2, 1907, in Greenville, Texas. He was raised in San Angelo and Dallas, where he attended Highland Park High School and graduated in 1927. He subsequently enrolled in engineering at Southern Methodist University, but dropped out to marry his high school sweetheart, Eloise Dunagan, and to study at the Dallas Art Institute. While he was there, he began his newspaper career as a sportswriter covering high school football games for the Dallas Morning News.qv Throughout the 1930s McClanahan held a number of sports-reporting jobs at both the News and a sister paper, the Dallas Journal.qv He interrupted his career to enlist in the Army Air Corps during World War IIqv and attained the rank of captain. He remained in the Air Force Reserve until 1967, when he retired as a lieutenant colonel.
After his discharge from the service in 1946, he found his true vocation as a cartoonist. He returned to the News sports staff that same year to write, edit, and draw cartoons. His first regular sports cartoon appeared on August 4, 1946. McClanahan, considered by many people to be the first well-known sports cartoonist in the South, was an innovator. He is perhaps best remembered as the "father of the Southwest Conference cartoon mascots"; as the popularizer of the "Grid Gram," a column that was, according to him, a "visual boxscore of a football game"; and as the inventor of the challenging "Texas Sports Exam." In 1957, after the retirement of senior News cartoonist John F. Knott,qv McClanahan joined Jack Howells (Herc) Ficklen as an editorial cartoonist for the paper, a position he held until his retirement in 1973. His last regular cartoon appeared in the News on December 29, 1972. McClanahan won numerous awards, including the Southwest Journalism Award in 1970, numerous National Freedom Foundation awards, the 1967 Dallas Press Club Award for Cartooning, several Congress of Freedom Awards, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce Sportsman Award, the National Foundation for Highway Safety Award, the Lincoln National Life Foundation Award, and the 1972 Hella Temple Award. In retirement he published two books, a collection of cartoons called Texas: The Way It Used to Be (1968) and Scenery for Model Railroads (1958, 1967). McClanahan died of a heart attack in Dallas on September 7, 1981.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert F. Darden, Drawing Power: Knott, Ficklen, and McClanahan, Editorial Cartoonists of the Dallas Morning News (Waco: Baylor University Press, 1983).
Died of a heart attack
Died December 29th...year not certain.
Marriage Notes for William Frank Hawkins and Jewel WEATHERS-453436
James Howard Dunagan and Thula Mae Weathers were married on September
23, 1924. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hawkins (Jewel Weathers) were married
prior to that date.
Felix Aldridge moved from Alabama to St. Francis County, Arkansas, between 1854-1857.
Her father was born in TN; her mother in NC